Show STRIKERS REMAIN FIRM They TIMy GIve No Intimation of Accepting the Readings Lathrop and Ir deal JUlie leele Certain o of treat la fa Oct L mine owners of the Wyoming Lackawanna and Lehl Lehigh h regions toda today at a meeting at followed ac Uon ot of the company In giving a 10 per pr cent Increase In wa wager They rhe reduced the price of powder from 1275 26 to per keg The Th latter latler price h has prevailed at the Heading compan mines for R n long tine time Th The action or of q e meet meeting Ing means an Inore increase or of 10 per cent to all mineworkers except minors The latter wilt will eArn Rn an Increase ot of About 10 per cent by reason ot of the reduced cost COlt ot of powder W A lAthrop chairman ut of the meeting out the following Lehigh Valley Vallo Coal COlli pen Wilkes barN Oct OeL company mak maker the following announcement to It Its mine employee It adjust its III rate of wu wages eo 10 ns as to PRY prey to its mine 11 on and Amt after October let n a anet net Increase of 10 per cent on the wa gee 1181 heretofore received und and will take up with Ita mIne employers any Alice which tho they may ha haW have W A 1111 HOP Superintendent Similar to th the above will be JOlted b by all the other companies rep represented resented It at the meeting The meeting was attended by rap ot of all the railroad companies who ho own mines mIne In th the regions named Sunk or of the independent miners oppose this Increase unless the coal carrying companies reduce duo the tolls on theIr product to tidewater The show Indication no ot of IC cc ICI I epting the otter offer None lone returned to work ork toda today at th the Reading collieries In response tu to the notice nolle of higher wages wael and In tact fact many who had been et at work there quit anti ami Joined th the ranks or of the strikers All As a result mull there we were fewer collieries In operAtion 1018 tolay In th Schuylkill region than at any time since the th strike was wal bt begun un In th the other r regions there were also allO ad addition to the strikers force Notices or of the Increase In rIA pay were ert ported throughout the entire anthracite r region tonight but the tha opinion is II general that tw few It Any ot of the strikers will return tor work The strikers say the they have other grievances to bt be adjusted wages and powder charges charle and nIl the they furl further her II say th they want recognition of union President II or of the I MineWorkers lIn Will visit re morrow to r H 1 a mash meeting find and review It a parade or of miners Ile He has ball ballI I uld the followIng statement to the then n or of the W valley vall To T the miners or of and vi I unit i 1 look forward with pleasure to I the h great demonstration which will willM h M Iven under the auspices of the ot of the Ule valley on Tuesday October 2nd The mine Inloe II kert akers of tb the anthracite region ht have h their law conduct won the theand thet t and admiration of It all justice I ring 1 nil of th the I Ir r ml I that organised labor hAM hAMI I on nn a great victory and that In the wore there theN will be In the homes ud and famines of at miner a more happl sees II And of at gloom and ande e ninon inn which too often And a dwell dwellIng hog Ing pia place t there JOHN JOBO |